I have an XSL style sheet generating HTML tags as it parses my rss (rdf) feed.  I'm trying to put values in a table, but my RSS window just looks like this:

RSS URL:

http://www.tides.info/?command=rss&location=Brookings%2c+Chetco+Cove%2c+Oregon

XSL Code:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="rdf rss l dc admin content xsl"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
                  xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
                xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
                  xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
                  xmlns:l="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/"
                  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
<!-- phil 'iwonder' guerra - xsl simple rdf translation file. -->
    <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
   
    <xsl:template match="/rdf:RDF">
    &lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;
    &lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
        &lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Date&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Time&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Tide&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Height&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Time&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Event&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
        &lt;tr&gt;
       <xsl:for-each select="rss:item">
           <xsl:variable name="desc" select="rss:description"/>
           <xsl:if test="substring($desc,1,2)='20'">
               <xsl:variable name="date" select="substring-before($desc,' ')"/>
                  
               <xsl:if test="contains($desc,'Tide')">
                   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;<xsl:value-of select="$date" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>&lt;/td&gt;
                   &lt;td&gt;<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($desc,'at '),': ')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>&lt;/td&gt;
                   &lt;td&gt;<xsl:value-of select="substring(substring-after($desc,'feet '),1,4)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>&lt;/td&gt;
                   &lt;td&gt;<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($desc,'T: '),'feet')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/> feet &lt;/td&gt;
                </xsl:if>
               
                <xsl:if test="(contains($desc,'Sun'))">
                    &lt;td&gt;<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($desc,'at '),':')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>&lt;/td&gt;
                    &lt;td&gt;<xsl:value-of select="substring-after($desc,'T: ')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>&lt;/td&gt;
                   
                </xsl:if>
               
            </xsl:if>
       </xsl:for-each>
       &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I tried the actual HTML first, and I kept getting errors with my </tr> tags.  Maybe I have to put them somewhere besides the beginning of a line.  I'll try again.

I'm sure the layout is poor, as I hadn't been able to "see" it yet.  If you're really feeling helpful, you can help me with the syntax of "previous-sibling" so I can detect the date change.  I would have never discovered the <xsl:for-each select="rss:item"> if it hadn't been for your example.  Why "rss:" is at the beginning is a mystery I'll accept.

<xsl:if test="$date ! = substring-before(preceding-sibling::rss:item[1]/description,' ')"> seems like the natural extrapolation, but it rejects it.